Saturday, 7 September 2013

Gambit film review

We hired this movie from Blockbuster last night (yes, we still have an open Blockbuster near us!) and it was my daughters choice. To be fair to her, the stars of the movie are Colin Firth, Alan Rickman and Cameron Diaz, so she, like us, was probably expecting a much better film.

IMDB describes the film as 'An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen,' and this may be part of the reason why the film lets the viewer down. Not only is Diaz (The Mask, There's Something About Mary) a caricature of a Texas rodeo queen, but her accent to me, admittedly British, sounds dreadful. Firth and Rickman do their best with stilted characters, but they and the hotel staff perform badly stereotypical upper-class accents, not to mention the small role of Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games, The Devil Wears Prada) as Martin Zaidenweber who had an appalling accent which I think was meant to be German.

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I am a writer who is looking to expand on the articles, poems, short stories and reviews I have had published and the plays and radio plays I have had performed. I am actively seeking a position in the creative industry whilst continuing to write novels, plays, poems and scripts.